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And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;

And Caleb, the son of Hezron, had children by Azubah his wife, the daughter of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon.

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.

And by the limits of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their daughter-towns. In these the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, were living.

All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.

And Shaharaim became the father of children in the country of the Moabites after driving out Hushim and Beerah his wives;

Ithai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.

There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war;

Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.

And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul.

And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

And of the children of Issachar, there were two hundred chiefs, men who had expert knowledge of the times and what it was best for Israel to do, and all their brothers were under their orders.

These are the names of the children he had in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab, Nathan and Solomon

O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.